Session
Technical Session IV: New Missions I
Abstract
TRW is under contract to the Republic of China's (ROC) National Space Program Office (NSPO) to build the spacecraft for ROCSAT-1, the first satellite in the ROC's civilian space program. The ROCSAT-1 spacecraft is the next generation of TRW's Eagle-class lightsats which were developed for the USAF's Space Test Experiment Platform (STEP) program and upgraded for NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program. The spacecraft will be developed in Redondo Beach, CA by a team of ROC and US engineers and delivered to Hsin-chu, Taiwan, ROC for integration with three experiments supplied by the NSPO: a space physics experiment, an ocean color imager and a Ka-band telecommunications relay experiment. The ~ 400 Kg satellite will be launched on a small satellite launch vehicle into circular 600 km altitude, 35 degree inclination orbit in late 1997. This paper briefly describes the mission, spacecraft and subsystem designs.
The ROCSAT-1 Spacecraft
TRW is under contract to the Republic of China's (ROC) National Space Program Office (NSPO) to build the spacecraft for ROCSAT-1, the first satellite in the ROC's civilian space program. The ROCSAT-1 spacecraft is the next generation of TRW's Eagle-class lightsats which were developed for the USAF's Space Test Experiment Platform (STEP) program and upgraded for NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) program. The spacecraft will be developed in Redondo Beach, CA by a team of ROC and US engineers and delivered to Hsin-chu, Taiwan, ROC for integration with three experiments supplied by the NSPO: a space physics experiment, an ocean color imager and a Ka-band telecommunications relay experiment. The ~ 400 Kg satellite will be launched on a small satellite launch vehicle into circular 600 km altitude, 35 degree inclination orbit in late 1997. This paper briefly describes the mission, spacecraft and subsystem designs.
